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Once the Research work is complete, students are required to submit three hard bound copies
of thesis report and CD containing the content as explained later. The thesis should not be less
than 80 pages, unless otherwise required / justified. Final evaluation will be conducted only
after submission of the thesis.
Following should be the contents/chapters of the Thesis Report.
Title Page
Signatures Page (Signed by Supervisor/Advisor)
Abstract
Dedication
Preface or Acknowledgment
Table of Contents
a. Table of Contents with page references. Individual listing of preliminary pages
Preface, Dedication, Acknowledgments.
b. Individual listing of Tables, Figures, Illustrations, Software Specifications, if
included.
c. List of Chapter or Section Headings; Appendices; Bibliography
d. List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction and Background:
a. background
b. statement of the problem
c. purpose of the research
d. applications of the research
e. theoretical bases and organization
2. Review of the literature
a. Related Technologies
b. Related Projects
c. Related Studies
d. Their Limitations and Bottlenecks
3. Methodology
a. design of the investigation
b. data analysis procedures
4. Implementation
a. verification of results preferably by implementation or
b. alternately by simulation and mathematically
5. Results and discussion
a. presentation of the findings
b. discussion of the findings
6. Conclusions and Further Work
includes limitations and recommendations
7. Bibliography / References
8. Appendices (if included)
FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS
The single-sided, normal character spaced manuscript is to be arranged as follows:
BINDING
Note:
Spine of binding must contain Group ID and Project Title as
shown in figure on the left.
COLOUR OF BINDING
For Masters the color of binding should be black with golden text (foreground color)
and for BS dark blue back ground with silver text.
PAPER
Use 80 grams paper; A4 (8.27 x 11.69) except for oversized items. All copies to be
submitted should be printed, photocopies will not be accepted.
CHAPTER HEADING
• Chapters and section numbering should be same as given in Table of Contents.
• Chapter should begin with ‘Chapter XX’ on the first line, in font size 18, Sentence
Case, left aligned. Here XX refers to the chapter number.
• The following line should contain ‘chapter heading title’, all Upper case, font size 18,
alignment as per regular text or left-aligned.
Section Heading
Font size 16, Bold, Title case, alignment left-aligned or as per regular text.
Sub-Section Heading
Font size 14, Title case, alignment left-aligned or as per regular text.
Sub-Sub-Section Heading
Font size 12, Underlined, Sentence case, alignment left-aligned or as per regular text.
PRINT QUALITY
Use laser printers or minimum 600 dpi inkjet printers.
Note: Do not put any lines or boxes in header and footer other than the content as
explained above.
TABLES
• Tables should preferably be prepared in good quality word-processing or
graphics package.
• Tables should preferably use the same text size and font as standard text.
• Tables should be centre-aligned.
• Tables should be numbered in the format ‘Table XX.YY’ where ‘XX’ is the
chapter number and ‘YY’ is the sequence number within the chapter. E.g. second
table in fourth chapter will be number ‘Table 4.2’.
• Portrait orientation of tables is preferred.
• The caption of tables will be pasted near the top of the table. The caption will
start with table number, followed by the title. The caption will be center-aligned
and in font-size same as of text with Title case or Sentence case.
OVERSIZED MATERIALS
• Oversize foldout pages may be included, though ample margins for binding must
be included. Leave oversize pages unfolded.
• All pages must be appropriately numbered if bound in the text.
• If the oversize pages are bulky, place them in a special pocket at the back. If a
pocket is required, it must be listed in the Table of Contents, but no page
numbers are required.
• A duplicate set of all oversized materials must be submitted.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs may be reproduced on 100 percent cotton paper and placed within the
standard text margins.
EQUATIONS
• Equations and formulas should preferably be type-written in good quality word-
processing or graphics package.
• All equations should be numbered in the format ‘(XX.YY)’ where ‘XX’ is chapter
number and ‘YY’ is the sequence number within that chapter; e.g. equation
appearing seventh in chapter two will be numbered as ‘(2.7)’.
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APPENDICES
• Title = ‘APPENDIX AA’ where ‘AA’ corresponds to A, B, C.... in sequential order,
font size 18, left-aligned, starting from line 1 of page.
• Numbering will continue from references in a sequential order; e.g. if last page of
references is page 182, Appendix A will start from page 183 and so forth.
• The text in appendices should preferably follow the same layout as regular text in
chapters.
• Author’s publications or a list of publications arising from MS work may be given
under an appendix.